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(NYT26) NEW YORK -- Feb. 8, 2006 -- NY-COP-SHOT -- Police outside a hospital in New York react to the news that fellow officer Eric Hernandez died, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. Hernandez, 24, was shot on Saturday by a colleague who mistook him for a criminal. (George M. Gutierrez/The New York Times)

(NYT26) NEW YORK -- Feb. 8, 2006 -- NY-COP-SHOT -- Police outside a hospital in New York react to the news that fellow officer Eric Hernandez died, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. Hernandez, 24, was shot on Saturday by a colleague who mistook him for a criminal. (George M. Gutierrez/The New York Times)

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New York City police officers react to the news Wednesday that officer Eric Hernandez, 24, died of gunshot wounds he suffered Jan. 28 when a fellow policeman, Alfredo Toro, 43, mistook him for a gun-toting assailant during a fight. Hernandez was wearing street clothes.

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SF;(NYT26) NEW YORK -- Feb. 8, 2006 -- NY-COP-SHOT -- Police outside a hospital in New York react to the news that fellow officer Eric Hernandez died, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. Hernandez, 24, was shot on Saturday by a colleague who mistook him for a criminal. (George M. Gutierrez/The New York Times)

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2006-02-09 17:33:02

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2006:02:08 15:35:22

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